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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

VATICAN CITY, 15 JUN 2010 (VIS) - In the Vatican Basilica at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 20 June Benedict XVI will preside at a Mass during which he will confer priestly ordination on fourteen deacons of the diocese of Rome.
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- Archbishop Lajos Balint, emeritus of Alba Iulia, Romania, on 4 April at the age of 80.

- Bishop Andre Bedoglouyan, auxiliary emeritus of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon, on 13 April at the age of 90.

- Archbishop Andrea Cassone, emeritus of Rossano-Cariati, Italy, on 12 April at the age of 80.

- Bishop Miguel C. Cinches S.V.D., emeritus of Surigao, Philippines, on 12 April at the age of 78.

- Bishop Vito De Grisantis of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy, on 1 April at the age of 68.

- Bishop Tadeusz Ploski, military ordinary for Poland, on 10 April at the age of 54.

- Archbishop William Donald Borders, emeritus of Baltimore, U.S.A., on 19 April at the age of 96.

- Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon S.P.S., emeritus of Warri, Nigeria, on 17 April at the age of 85.

- Bishop Norman Francis McFarland, emeritus of Orange in California, U.S.A., on 16 April at the age of 88.

- Archbishop Luigi Amaducci, emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy, on 3 May at the age of 86.

- Bishop Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather, emeritus of Tuticorin, India, on 14 February at the age of 84.

- Archbishop Raymond Bouchex, emeritus of Avignon, France, on 9 May at the age of 83.

- Archbishop Marcello Costalunga, former pontifical administrator of the papal basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls and former pontifical delegate of the basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy, on 5 May at the age of 85.

- Archbishop Antoine Hayek B.C., emeritus of Baniyas of the Greek-Melkites, Lebanon, on 1 May at the age of 81.

- Archbishop Zygmunt Kaminski, emeritus of Szczecin-Kamien, Poland, on 1 May at the age of 77.

- Bishop Onofre Candido Rosa S.D.B., emeritus of Jardim, Brazil, on 9 December 2009 at the age of 85.

- Bishop Rafael Sanus Abad, former auxiliary of Valencia, Spain, on 13 May at the age of 78.

- Bishop Victor Selvino Arenhardt of Obera, Argentina, on 17 May at the age of 61.

- Bishop Josef Koukl, emeritus of Litomerice, Czech Republic, on 22 May at the age of 84.

- Bishop Jose Joaquin Matte Varas, military ordinary emeritus for Chile, on 12 May at the age of 87.
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